Pieter Verstraete (°1979) is doctor in the educational sciences (KULeuven) and currently works as a post-doctoral research fellow for the Flemish Fund for Scientific Research (FWO-Vlaanderen) on a project that aims to study the history of Belgian rehabilitation initiatives for disabled soldiers from the First World War. Besides his academic research interests he has been active as a freelance journalist for the LAPP-Magazine since 2005. In 2009 he was curator for an exhibition in the National Schoolmuseum of Ypres and recently he co-founded the independent production company Freshwater Films which focuses on (co)-producing creative documentaries for an international audience.
